Book
The long journey: social integration and ethnicity maintenance among urban Basques in the San Francisco Bay region
Associated Faculty Press, Inc. ; Basque Studies Program, University of Nevada • (1) • Published In 1983 • Pages: xi, 128
By: Decroos, Jean Francis, -1980, University Of Nevada, Reno. Basque Studies Program.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is an ethnographic study of the Basques in the American West, with particular emphasis on those in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. The focus of the author's research is on the assimilation processes taking place in various areas of Basque society as the result of exposure to the relevant dominant culture of American society. Since Decroos assumes '…that time is a crucial element in the process of integration, exposure is measured in terms of generational sequence ' (p. ix). Other relevant variables used as indices of exposure to American culture are age, sex, and occupation. In addition, attention is also focused in this work on the maintenance of Basque ethnic culture and the consequences this has for the self-identification of its adherents. Other topics given varying degrees of discussion in this document are immigration, the Basque hotel, cultural associations, religion, education, economics, and politics. Appendices A and B describe the author's methodology.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Speech
- Occupational specialization
- Ethnic stratification
- Social relationships and groups
- Sodalities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Basque Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ;1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1976-1979
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1976-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Jean Francis Decroos
- Revision of thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Oregon, 1979?
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-113) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83008808
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Basque Americans